Word: finalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...came another call: "Humphrey arrives in Hartford at 11 a.m." Scrap the housewives. Goodbye, Connecticut General. A fuming Bailey reached Humphrey again and growled: "You're going to stand up 300 women and 2,000 insurance people because you want to sleep one more hour?" Then came the final call. "Hold everything." Humphrey might make the housewives' chat after...
Colonel Steiner, 38, has been soldiering for most of his life. In the final days of World War II, he fought as a Hitler Youth in Germany's last-ditch defense against the advancing U.S. Army. After the German surrender, he enlisted in the French Foreign Legion. He spent seven years in Indo-China, an enfant terrible who was at least twice busted from sergeant to private. At Dienbienphu, he was wounded and lost the use of a lung. After five years of service in Algeria, a spell with the S.A.O. and a suspended sentence, he was living...
...exile or imprisonment on the five defendants. By banning foreign newsmen from the trial and by packing the small courtroom with a specially selected hostile audience, the Soviet authorities sought to curb information about the proceedings. They failed. Last week Western newsmen in Moscow received surreptitious copies* of the final remarks of two of those on trial: Mrs. Larisa Daniel, wife of the imprisoned writer Yuri Daniel, and Pavel Litvinov, the 31-year-old physicist grandson of Stalin's prewar Foreign Minister. The reasoned, quiet pleas of the two dissenters are an eloquent echo of all those, from Socrates...
Those who will not approve of the verdict, if they state their disapproval, will follow me here to this dock. I know the law, but I also know it in practice. And therefore today, in my final plea, I ask nothing of this court...
...speech dealing in part with the foibles of Yankee politics. Said Rector Ustinov: "We may feel safer in the hands of Mr. Nixon whose smile, unlike that of Mr. Humphrey, seems to be formed by the pull of an invisible bit, as ambition tugs at the reins before the final hurdle. Or we may be influenced by the frailty of Governor Agnew, who has committed so many indiscretions in so short a span of time that his capacity for them must be ascribed to a gift rather than a vice. The Agnew and the ecstasy...